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Skinny Jeans Are Ruining Our Men

The 'over-feminization' of America is destroying masculinity

(Newser) - “Real men don’t wear skinny jeans.” They also don’t wear V-necks, “accessorized scarves,” or the colors pink and purple, and the very thought of male waxing makes them “nauseous.” All this according to Jane Gilvary, who bemoans the death of the manly...

Fiorina's Catty
Hair Remark
Is a Big Deal

OPINION

Jun 11, 2010 1:02 PM CDT

Fiorina's Catty Hair Remark Is a Big Deal

So much for girl power, writes Ruth Marcus

(Newser) - Just when Ruth Marcus was feeling good about the women in the 2010 race, Carly Fiorina had to make that catty comment about Barbara Boxer’s hair. Fiorina tried to laugh it off—“It sort of goes with the territory,” she told Greta Van Susteren. “No no ...

Feminists
Should
Embrace
Palin

OPINION

Jun 9, 2010 12:36 PM CDT

Feminists Should Embrace Palin

Conservatives shouldn't be shunned from the cause

(Newser) - Sarah Palin is taking heat from the left for daring to adopt the label of feminist, writes Cathy Young. Palin clearly isn't a great spokesperson for the cause—she's big on slogans but not so much on substantive ideas—but Young thinks feminists are making a mistake by automatically rejecting...

Sarah Palin Is
No Feminist

OPINION

May 30, 2010 1:25 PM CDT

Sarah Palin Is No Feminist

And here's how she gets away with calling herself one

(Newser) - Sarah Palin sure sounds like a feminist these days, using the words "feminism" and "feminist" a dozen-plus times at a recent speech, along with choice phrases like "pro-woman sisterhood." But "Palin isn't a feminist," writes Jessica Valenti, "not in the slightest." She...

Palin Backs
'Mama Grizzlies'
in Girl Power Push

analysis

May 17, 2010 11:08 AM CDT

Palin Backs 'Mama Grizzlies' in Girl Power Push

Ex-governor gets behind 'common sense conservative women'

(Newser) - Sarah Palin appears to have embraced her inner girl power. In the past 10 days she's endorsed three women in various GOP primaries, and in a speech before an anti-abortion group on Friday she made it clear that wasn't a coincidence. “This year will be remembered as the year...

Is the Tea Party Feminist?

May 13, 2010 6:31 AM CDT

Is the Tea Party Feminist?

Sort of, argues Hanna Rosin on Slate

(Newser) - "While no movement that uses Michelle Malkin as a poster girl could fairly be described as feminist," writes Hanna Rosin on Slate, the Tea Party actually comes surprisingly close. More than half of the movement's members are women and there are many women in leadership roles. That, of...

Hey, Women:
Stop Hating
Tina Fey

OPINION

Apr 14, 2010 12:57 PM CDT

Hey, Women: Stop Hating Tina Fey

Remember, she's a comedian—not a professional feminist

(Newser) - As the laws of gravity have taught us, the Tina Fey backlash was inevitable—Rebecca Traister actually expected it when the comedian started “appearing on every magazine cover shy of Horse & Hound”—and it’s now, quite suddenly, here in full force. But her pack of haters...

Maine
Topless
Protesters
Draw Oglers

Apr 4, 2010 1:41 PM CDT

Maine Topless Protesters Draw Oglers

Go figure

(Newser) - The ideal: A topless woman walking down a street on a hot day would arouse no more attention than a guy parading his beer gut and back hair for all the world to see. The reality: A few dozen Maine women yesterday flaunting their right to go sans shirt ran...

Stop Breastfeeding Your 'Tyrant' Baby: Feminist

smoke, drink instead

Mar 22, 2010 10:36 AM CDT

Stop Breastfeeding Your 'Tyrant' Baby: Feminist

Attentive parenting new form of oppression, says feminist Badinter

(Newser) - What with all the breastfeeding, diaper washing, and not smoking while pregnant, mothers have become enslaved to their “tyrant” babies. That’s the opinion of French feminist philosopher Elisabeth Badinter, who sees women giving up their lives in the service of their young ones—and risking women's liberation by...

Feminism’s
New Hero:
Lady Gaga

opinion

Feb 24, 2010 6:18 PM CST

Feminism’s New Hero: Lady Gaga

She's half-nude, but she's not trying to be sexy

(Newser) - Say what you will about Lady Gaga's music and barely-there costumes, the woman is well on her way to becoming a "feminist icon and a gender revolutionary," writes Chloe Angyal. Yes, she prances around nearly naked like Britney Spears and company, but with one key difference: She's not...

The Manly History
of the Color Pink

Feb 21, 2010 1:35 PM CST

The Manly History of the Color Pink

Believe it or not, baby boys used to wear pink, too

(Newser) - If ever there was a color that stereotypically symbolized the feminine, it’s pink. But the history of the girly shade hasn’t always been so ladylike. Slate takes a look back:

Financial Times: Its salmon-pink pages have turned “salmon press” into British shorthand for any newspaper business section.

...

Rush Limbaugh
Denies Sexism
With Sexist Joke

Feb 3, 2010 2:35 PM CST

Rush Limbaugh Denies Sexism With Sexist Joke

He loves 'walking behind' the women's movement

(Newser) - Even when attempting to defend himself from accusations of sexism, Rush Limbaugh couldn't refrain from making a sexist joke. Rush talked to Fox and Friends host Gretchen Carlson about criticism he's faced since judging the Miss America pageant last week. He defended himself by saying he is "a huge...

Finally, Women Who Leave

OPINION

Dec 17, 2009 1:43 PM CST

Finally, Women Who Leave

Elin Nordegren and Jenny Sanford are a breath of fresh air

(Newser) - Elin Nordegren and Jenny Sanford are setting a depressingly rare example by actually leaving the powerful philanderers they married. “We're living in a culture saturated with mistresses and interns, sexting and sex addiction, and a parade of stony-faced wives somehow putting up with it all,” complains Sheelah Kolhatkar...

Lieberman's Wife Attacked for His Health Care Stand

Kathleen Parker

Dec 16, 2009 12:38 PM CST

Lieberman's Wife Attacked for His Health Care Stand

Leftie smear campaign against Hadassah is as anti-feminist as it gets

(Newser) - Now that Joe Lieberman has made himself Public Enemy No. 1 on the left, his wife has become the victim of an "anti-feminist" smear campaign, writes Kathleen Parker. An online petition calls for her removal as global ambassador for the Susan G. Komen for the Cure organization, which fights...

Things a Feminist Can Still Do

YES, MAKEUP IS OK

Nov 25, 2009 8:45 AM CST

Things a Feminist Can Still Do

Wearing plunging necklines doesn't make you any less of a feminist

(Newser) - After a British tabloid snarked that a TV newscaster wore too much makeup—and wondered if she could still be considered a feminist—Wendy Atterberry felt compelled to answer. Yes, she absolutely can—even while wearing false eyelashes, she writes on The Frisky . More things feminists are allowed to do:...

Student
Expelled for
Minidress

SHORT TEMPERS

Nov 9, 2009 10:46 AM CST

Student Expelled for Minidress

Brazilian school accuses woman of immorality in newspaper ads

(Newser) - A 20-year-old woman was expelled from a Brazilian university and accused of violating "ethical principles and academic dignity and morality" after wearing a short pink dress to class, the AP reports. Her expulsion comes a month after she was escorted off campus amid the heckling and cursing of her...

Miss, Mrs., or Ms.—
'It's OK Not to Care'

OPINION

Oct 19, 2009 3:49 PM CDT

Miss, Mrs., or Ms.— 'It's OK Not to Care'

Nancy Gibbs reflects on women's freedom to choose title

(Newser) - Not so long ago, feminism and convention waged a battle over titles—Miss, Mrs., and the young upstart, Ms. Though seemingly trivial, the question of whether a woman should have to specify her marital status in stating her name cut to the core of women’s place in society—and...

Honor the Dalai Lama: Replace Him With a Girl

OPINION

Oct 9, 2009 10:35 AM CDT

Honor the Dalai Lama: Replace Him With a Girl

Next reincarnation of the Buddha ought to be a woman

(Newser) - The Dalai Lama’s work for peace has been so widely praised that it’s almost obscured his wonderful work as a feminist. He has worked tirelessly for women, seeking to raise their position in Tibetan society, writes Amy Yee for Double X. He even suggested, scandalously, that his next...

Hofstra Gang Rape Wasn't
Rape—but It Wasn't OK

OPINION

Sep 22, 2009 12:13 PM CDT

Hofstra Gang Rape Wasn't Rape—but It Wasn't OK

Drunken sexual encounters trivialize the problem of real rape

(Newser) - It’s clear now that the alleged Hofstra gang rape in a campus bathroom—in which a young woman said 5 guys tied her to a stall and attacked her—was not rape, by any legal definition. Confronted with a cell phone video, the woman recanted within 72 hours, admitting...

Feminists Don't Get It:
Motherhood's a Drug

OPINION

Aug 25, 2009 3:08 PM CDT

Feminists Don't Get It: Motherhood's a Drug

(Newser) - For Katie Roiphe, the connection with her newborn child is like an “addiction," she writes on DoubleX. "There is an opium-den quality to maternity leave. The high of a love that obliterates everything.” Why, then, can’t feminists accept that motherhood is more than a “...